84 people have been arrested in Istanbul in the culmination of a two year probe into allegations of corruption, money laundering, gold smuggling and bribery.
Europol’s recently published European Union Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment has identified that organised crime is increasing across the continent with the threats posed by illicit trading fuelled by the continuing financial crisis.
For several years, Cherán’s forests were illegally deforested by loggers protected by the notorious La Familia cartel. Locals asked the government for protection but were ignored. So on April 15, 2011, the townspeople took matters into their own hands. Armed with sticks, stones and machetes, the people of Cherán seized the local government and police buildings and set up burning barricades around the perimeter of the town